| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Jewish prayer shawls of victims. 90 percent of the 2 million people killed here were Jews.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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The possessions of the victims were kept and used by the Nazis.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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7,000kg of human hair from victims was sold to make clothing and netting.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Toothbrushes.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Victims' glasses.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Artificial limbs.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Crutches.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Brushes.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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A mountain of shoes.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Baskets and brief cases.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Children's clothes.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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The Nazis photographed most of their victims and noted various details.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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The captions give the number, name and dates of birth, arrival and death of the victim.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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A female victim of the Nazis.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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A male victim of the Nazi horror.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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A drawing by an inmate showing conditions at the concentration camp.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Drawing showing inmates being worked mercylessly.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Drawing showing musicians playing for the working inmates.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
 |
Spartan sleeping conditions. Most of the 2 million victims died in gas chambers but many died from the conditions, disease and overwork.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Uniforms for inmates.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Washing facilities.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Toilet facilities.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Bunk beds.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
 |
SS office with portrait of Adolph Hitler.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Desk in the SS office.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Furniture (SS office).
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
 |
SS Commander's room.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Underground cells.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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These cells were used for experiments on inmates.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Torture gallows.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Saddle shaped structure used for floggings.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Financial records of prisoners.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Cell 18 where the Polish monk, Maximilian Kolbe, died after offering his life for another prisoner.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
 |
The Death Block saw thousands of prisoners shot by the SS.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
 |
Watch tower.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Photograph of executions.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Posts used for flogging inmates.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Floral tributes.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Auschwitz was on the edge of an industrial town.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Memorial from Israel.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Roll calls were held with prisoners having to stand for hours.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Portable gallows used for mass hangings.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Underground gas chamber.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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The Crematorium. The ashes were used as fertiliser.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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The Gas chamber. Most of the killing was done at nearby Birkanau.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Auschwitz Concentration Camp
|
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Map of Birkanau, the nearby death camp.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
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Entrance to the Birkanau Death Camp near Auschwitz. Most of the people killed by the Nazis died in the gas chambers here.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
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The Birkanau Death Camp was reached by rail. During World War II, the Nazis developed extermination on an industrial scale.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
The railway line came all the way to the gas chambers.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
The camp covers 175 hectares and once had over 300 buildings. Most were destroyed by retreating Nazis.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
45 brick and 22 wooden structures survive as a memorial.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
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Sleeping quarters.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
The kitchens.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
The foundations of destroyed buildings survive.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
Entrance to the killing area.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
People were selected by doctors for work or extermination.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
Barbed wire and watch tower.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
Watch tower.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
Ruins of four gas chambers and crematoria.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
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Foundations of buildings destroyed by the Nazis as they retreated.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
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Wooden living quarters.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
Watch tower.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
International memorial to the victims.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
Memorial tribute.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Auschwitz
Site / Event : Birkanau Death Camp
|
 |
The pond where victims' ashes were dumped. This was shown in the TV series "The Ascent of Man" by Jacob Bronowski.
|
2000 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
|
 |
The old city of Gdansk.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
|
 |
Gdansk was founded by the Teutonic Knights and was part of the Hanseatic League.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
|
 |
Gdansk has German influence and was previously the Prussian city of Danzig.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
|
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Danzig was awarded to Poland after World War I. The Second World War began when Germany attacked the city.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
|
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Much of the city had to be rebuilt after World War 2.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
|
 |
The old city is very picturesque.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Arsenal
|
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The Arsenal.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Arsenal
|
 |
The Arsenal dates from 1605.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Arsenal
|
 |
The building is now an art gallery.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
|
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Much of the old city was rebuilt after the Second World War.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
|
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The buildings show German and Dutch influence.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Upland Gate
|
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The Upland Gate dates from 1574 and was embellished in 1586.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Upland Gate
|
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The coat of arms of Prussia has two unicorns.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Upland Gate
|
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The coat of arms of Poland with two angels.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Upland Gate
|
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The coat of arms of Gdansk-Danzig (two lions).
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Foregate
|
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The Foregate dates from the 15th century. It began as a defensive gate and later became a gaol.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Foregate
|
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External carvings.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Foregate
|
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The prison tower.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Foregate
|
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The torture house.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Foregate
|
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The gate was used as a court and a place of execution.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Foregate
|
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Octagonal tower.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Foregate
|
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View of the octagonal tower from within the gate.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Foregate
|
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Carving in the torture house.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Foregate
|
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Side view of the gate.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Foregate
|
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View of the gate from the East.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Foregate
|
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Detail of the brickwork.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Golden Gate
|
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The Golden Gate (1612) is one of three gates. To its left is the Court of the Fraternity of St George (1490s).
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Golden Gate
|
 |
St George and the dragon.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
Site / Event : Golden Gate
|
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The Golden Gate is at the beginning of the Royal Way. The statues are Peace, Liberty, Wealth and Fame.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
District : Royal Way
|
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The Royal Way is a 300m route once taken by kings.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
District : Royal Way
|
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Decorated houses in the pedestrianised Long Street, part of the Royal Way.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
District : Royal Way
|
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The Houses are painted and often have carvings.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
District : Royal Way
|
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Mural showing two women with a hen and eggs.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
District : Royal Way
|
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Mural showing two women with a goose and a hen.
|
2022 |
| Poland |
City / Town : Gdansk
District : Royal Way
|
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The houses are tall and thin and show Dutch influence.
|
2022 |
were added from 1 February 2025.